To begin with, throughout the year, the fiery Sun passes through the twelve houses of heaven, where it performs elaborate rituals and holy processes. Mystics have traced fire worship back to early Lemuria. Even if it was beyond our ancestor’s ability to analyze it, instinctively, they could have recognized that the flame resembles the vibrant, volatile, and fiery Light within the souls. 

With Aries, a new surge of fiery solar energy infuses the Earth. Aries is the courage and passion that burns in our soul, an instinctual warrior that directs their will into decisive action. 

Like all archetypes, Aries dwells in our psyche despite our conscious attitudes toward it. Their metal is iron. Their stone is red jasper. Their color is red.

Aries, like Scorpio, is about winning wars and overcoming obstacles. Scorpio is about an inner battle, and Aries is about the outer battle. The instinctual energy of the Aries warrior is a stance toward life that energizes and motivates; action leads to friction, and this friction leads to striving. The warrior in them is always alert. Always awake, never sleeping throughout life. There is only one direction for the natives of this sign, and that is: forward. 

Their visionary minds are very much awake too. Aries is always ready to conjure up ideas at the drop of a witch's hat. They loathe imitations and once having done something; they don't want to repeat it. Well, then, so it goes without saying, don't meddle in the affairs of the Aries unless you want to witness the disasters of war in Goya's paintings.* 

We believe this view has much truth; however, we don't identify with aggressiveness, quite the opposite. The loyal inner warrior spirit of our ancestors has built the nations of today, and so the eagerness to defend and extend is deeply rooted in our genetic codes and universally present in all of us. 

It is true Aries find their power very early in life. This power is most likely connected to an early life crisis where they needed to develop resourcefulness and independence quickly. Sigmund Freud's concept of 'sublimation' relates well to this idea: we are not born with courage; we take destructive, harmful energies and transmute them into an opportunity for growth. In other words, we develop courage through a deep process of crisis. 

As an initiatory of individuality, Aries is not afraid to be honest with themselves, to stumble upon what irritates them, and to learn lessons. However uncomfortable, their life experiences are all initiations, a step towards learning many valuable things in life. For Aries, nothing can substitute experience, that’s why Aries lives beautifully, imperfectly, and wildly in continuous movement building and moulding their character on their terms.  

The horns of Mars are hard to crack. A Mars-ruled person forever believes with all their heart. Even when failing, they get up again to try once more. Nothing keeps them down permanently, failure least of all. Likewise, in love affairs – when they love, they strive to become better, when they strive to become better everything around them becomes better too. 

In ancient lore, this sign is said to be the first house, the house of the Head. Through intellect, we encounter the powers of reasoning and gain control over the ordering of our world. Aries is teaching us that through the conscious Mind, we have access to the power of controlling, directing, and governing our lives. 

This realization gives us the firmness to follow our destinies. It allows us to organize our world for our greatest good and the good of others. When our inner world is in order, our physical body is in order too. A well-known Latin motto ‘mens sana in corpore sano'* seems appropriate here. 

* Francisco Goya (Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in Aries) was a painter. A lot of his paintings are war-like.